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" Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. "

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" In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. "

" Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. "

" The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason. "

" I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world. "

" Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. "

" All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. "

" It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. "

" Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. "

" Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed. "

" The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. "

" Vanity is but the surface. "

" We never love a person, but only qualities. "

" Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm. "

" Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world. "

" Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. "

" Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world. "

" Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. "

" The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. "

" As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. "

" All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. "

" The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. "

" Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature. "

" Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. "

" Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? "

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" If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. "

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